Top Action Movies


The Top Action Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Action List". Lists are calculated daily.

421. Red Dawn

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Milius
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Darren Dalton, Jennifer Grey
Plot: World War III has started - Soviet and Cuban forces have began their assault and in a small Colorado town a group of teenagers bands together to fight the invading forces. With inferior weapons, they must use their wits and the lay of the land to survive the winter and defeat the soldiers.

422. Machine Gun Preacher

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker, Barbara Coven
Plot: Sam Childers spent his life as a drug-dealing biker until he found God. He found a way to put his faith and former life to use by taking on the task of coming to the aid of Sudanese children forced to become soldiers.

423. Get the Gringo

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adrian Grunberg
Actors: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris, Bob Gunton, Scott Cohen, Kevin Hernandez
Plot: A criminal with a long rap sheet finds himself in over his head when Mexican authorities send him to an infamous prison. In order to survive, he will have to make the right friends, including one important 9-year-old boy.

424. Lucy

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luc Besson
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Analeigh Tipton
Plot: A woman in Taipei finds herself an unwilling drug mule - but the drugs
start leaking into her system and she suddenly finds herself with
incredible powers - and she's looking for revenge.

425. The Crimson Pirate

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Siodmak
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, Leslie Bradley
Plot: Classic swashbuckling action as a sword-fighting, acrobatic pirate finds intrigue amongst the Caribbean revolution in the 1700s.

426. U.S. Marshals

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stuart Baird
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood
Plot: Crack U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard and his crew are on the case when a planeload of convicts goes down and Mark Sheridan escapes. They soon realize Sheridan is no ordinary criminal and his incrimination may be part of an elaborate set up.

427. Shoot 'Em Up

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Davis
Actors: Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Chris Jericho, Ramona Pringle, Dru Viergever
Plot: Mr. Smith becomes a reluctant father and protector of a baby delivered during a late-night shoot out that takes the life of the child's mother. After meeting up with a lactating hooker, the implausible family searches for an answer while dodging bullets and dealing death.

428. Metro Manila

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sean Ellis
Actors: Jake Macapagal, Althea Vega, John Arcilla, Erin Panlilio, JM Rodriguez, Ana Abad-Santos

429. Tarzan the Ape Man

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd, Forrester Harvey
Plot: In deepest Africa, a trader and his daughter search for a legendary elephant graveyard but instead discover a wild man raised by apes.

430. Top Secret!

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Actors: Val Kilmer, Christopher Villiers, Lucy Gutteridge, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke, Harry Ditson
Plot: A wildly popular teen pop idol tours East Germany where he falls in love with a woman and becomes tangled up with a French resistance group.

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